Hello,

It sounds nice in theory. But knowing the current limitations of object recognition and our category/tagging system on Commons, I don't see how it could really help to improve the project. For example: We don't tag every object in the background since it is much better for the user to find images inside the categories that have this object as the main motive. In case of something like a ball it would need to correctly distinguish between a football, a globe, marble, melon, etc. If it guesses wrong and would add the tag it would accidentally increase the efforts for our maintainers.

Maybe you want to elaborate in more detail what possible use cases you have in mind, where it would be a real help for our contributers. I like the idea, but at the same time I see a lot of difficulties to transform it in a realistic improvement for the project.

~nya

Am 19.03.2012 17:55, schrieb Vivek kumar bagaria:

Hello all,

I am Vivek Kumar Bagaria, 2nd year student from IIT Madras. I am interested in participating in
GSoC 2012 with mediawiki. I am working with Mediawiki from past two months and have submitted various patches.

I was very much interested in the idea of -
"Automatically tagging photos in Wikimedia Commons using computerised object recognition", which was suggested
by Maarteen Dammers in the GSoC 2012 Page

I have experience with OpenCv. I had done a project last summer which involved detection of a ball. This is the youtube link - Ball Following Robot.
I would like to know if anyone is willing to mentor this idea. I would love to work on this idea.

Thank you,
Vivek Kumar Bagaria
IIT Madras

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With regards,
Vivek Kumar Bagaria
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